PEOPLE CANNOT CHANGE TRUTH, BUT TRUTH CAN CHANGE PEOPLE.

Bigoted Man on Campus 
By Jeff Jacoby, July 2, 2001, Boston Globe 

What shall we say, to take the example of a notorious liar at another esteemed Massachusetts college, about Tony Martin? 

Martin is a professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. A few years ago, he was at the center of a media storm when he began requiring students in his course on African-American history to read the Nation of Islam's poisonous anti-Semitic screed,  ''The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews.'' Published in 1991, the book charges that Jews, as the ''key operatives'' in the African slave trade, bear ''monumental culpability in ... the black holocaust.'' 
No reputable scholar regards ''The Secret Relationship'' as anything other than a gross perversion of history; Harvard's renowned HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR described it as ''one of the most sophisticated instances of hate literature yet compiled.'' SELWYN CUDJOE, the Caribbean scholar who chairs Martin's own Africana Studies Department at Wellesley, called it ''patently and scurrilously anti-Semitic.'' 
Martin assigned the book not to expose the demagoguery of the Nation of Islam or to teach his students how to sift truth from falsehood. 

He assigned it because he wanted them to believe that Jews were responsible for slavery. Martin, it turned out, was an anti-Semite himself and was using his classroom to implant his bigotry in his students. He confirmed his hostility in the fall of 1993, when he published ''The Jewish Onslaught,'' a book so hate-filled that a majority of Wellesley's faculty signed a statement repudiating it ''for its racial and ethnic stereotyping and for its anti-Semitism.'' 
Now, if Ellis deserves to be punished - perhaps even fired - because of yarns he told about his own record, surely Martin, who fills his students' heads with some of the most toxic lies imaginable, has no business on a college campus. 

To read entire text of article click here. (July  2001)

Wellesley Professor Tony Martin, Historical Research Department Attacked - Community Responds

The fact that Jews owned slaves, while certainly an unpleasant reality for many within the Jewish community has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt.

To read full text of the defense of Martin and the Historical Research click here. (July 2001)

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